The climate story is rendering all other stories obsolete, says scifi author @paolobacigalupi:

More from OnEarth community blog : Don't Allow This to Be Another Silent Spring: Tell Lawmakers to Take Climate Action The Edge : For Some, the Climate Crisis Means Change or Perish OnEarth Network : High Waters: A Climate Connection to the Mississippi River Floods? Science fiction writers ask if climate change is transforming Earth into the ultimate alien planet Welcome to the Greenhouse Edited by Gordon Van Gelder OR Books, 348 pp., $17 If you run your hand down the shelves of a bookstore, you'll find a wide range of contemporary fiction, categorized by reader fetish and with genres kept carefully separate. This one is "mystery," that one a "romance," another is a "thriller," and that one over there? Well, it's "literary." But whether we're talking about dragon tattoos or Da Vinci's codes or fraught Thanksgiving reunions, contemporary novels all seem to share a certain b...